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Despite the rainy days and dreary skies we’ve been seeing recently, spring is definitely in the air. With flowers blooming and trees regaining their verdant hues, the shift of the seasons continues to inject color into the landscape. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

In April, more than a dozen young adults sat in the front row of Concord City Council’s monthly meeting, holding up signs calling for Concord to “Light up Keach.” But they didn’t get the chance to speak those words out loud.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

New England has three great dynasties: Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics, Tom Brady and the New England Patriots and Concord, N.H. and its drinking water.

The northbound ramp to Interstate 89 from I-93 will be closed Tuesday, May 13, to allow for pavement pothole repairs.  

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Mother’s Day felt like cruel irony for Barb Higgins.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

With one major asterisk, City Manager Tom Aspell proposed a roughly $155 million budget to city councilors for their review, which would rely on reserve funds to carry a 4% increase in the tax rate next year. 

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Freeman Toth can suggest few places for people experiencing homelessness now that the winter shelters have closed and police have started clearing tent sites along Concord’s downtown and near the river. 

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord City Councilors will vote on whether to move forward with the installation of lights on the field at Keach Park, accept grant money for a police K-9 program, and streamline the process for getting demolition permits at their regular meeting Monday night.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A woman was transported to Concord Hospital with serious injuries Friday morning after a collision involving a gray pickup truck near the intersection of School Street and Green Street downtown, according to Concord Police.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord Police have identified remains found near the I-393 bridge downtown as 36-year-old Concord resident Curtis Ayer. 

As summer rolls around, here are two unique summer camp opportunities to make the months between school feel more exciting!

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A three-year contract with the Concord Educational Assistants Association, approved by the Concord Board of Education, will create an additional wage step in the first year, followed by 3% increases in the following two years.

By DAVID BROOKS

When it comes to budgeting, you can’t get much worse than bottled water.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A Hopkinton-based logger cleared 12 acres of trees on land near Sam’s Club and Walmart in Concord to ready it for development.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Skeletal remains found in a dilapidated shed off North State Street have been identified by Concord Police as those of Michael Schilz, 59, of Concord.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

David Browall, 25, of Concord, has been identified as the man who died inside a burning RV parked at the former Steeplegate Mall early Saturday morning. 

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Several streets in downtown Concord will be closed Wednesday evening for the 23rd annual Rock’N Race, a fundraiser supporting cancer programs and services for patients and their families.

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Rob Knight stumbled upon the historic site around Russell Pond entirely by coincidence. He was in the process of helping the Concord Trails committee create a trail connecting Marjorie Swope Park to Carter Hill Orchard. The trail was initially supposed to cut through a different area of the woods but ended up being right by the pond, exactly at the former site of the Concord Ski and Outing Club’s Winter Recreation Area.

By GEOFF FORESTER

With projects in various stages of development across Concord, we thought we’d give you a visual tour of just some of the new additions as the building season goes into high gear. There’s been significant progress downtown with the new legislative garage, Arts Alley and a renovation of the former Holiday Inn. A revamped Fisherville Road and projects along South Main Street and Manchester Street are further changing the landscape of the city.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Steve Quinn sees Beaver Meadow Golf Course as the 18-hole equivalent of Cannon Mountain.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Bob Maccini doesn’t like to think of a new petition about Concord’s middle school project as an ultimatum, even if it is one.